Du sublime romantique au sublime technologique : la nature et la machine dans L’Ève Future de Villiers de l’Isle Adam

• Authors: Elsa Stéphan

Title variants

EN

The technological sublime: machines and nature in Villiers’s Future Eve

PL

Du sublime romantique au sublime technologique : la nature et la machine dans L’Ève Future de Villiers de l’Isle Adam

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

Based on Leo Marx’s expression, « the technological sublime », this article analyzes science and technology as new incarnations of the sublime in nineteenth-century literature. The characteristics of the sublime, as defined by Edmund Burke, were formerly attributed to nature in Romantic literature. In his novel, The Future Eve, published in 1886, French writer Villiers narrates the creation of a machine woman, described as a « sublime creature », illustrating nineteenth-century new faith in science.

PL

Based on Leo Marx’s expression, « the technological sublime », this article analyzes science and technology as new incarnations of the sublime in nineteenth-century literature. The characteristics of the sublime, as defined by Edmund Burke, were formerly attributed to nature in Romantic literature. In his novel, The Future Eve, published in 1886, French writer Villiers narrates the creation of a machine woman, described as a « sublime creature », illustrating nineteenth-century new faith in science.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Gdański
• Journal: Cahiers ERTA
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 23-36

Dates

published

2014-12-01

Contributors

author

Elsa Stéphan